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The best Valentine’s Day gifts for wine lovers
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If your partner likes wine, it can be tempting to gift them a nice bottle for Valentine’s Day. But why settle? Go the extra mile and surprise them with a gift that will take their wine experience to the next level.
The shopping experts at CBS Essentials have curated a list of the best gift ideas for wine lovers for Valentine’s Day 2024. These wine-centric gifts include tools that will enhance their wine as well as prolong its life. We’ve also included fun, wine-related accessories and opportunities to expose them to a different varieties of wine that they probably won’t find in their local grocery store.
Whether you’re shopping for your husband, wife or someone else, you’ll find the perfect gift idea for the wine lover in your life right here.
3-in-1 wine bottle cooler stick
Newward via Amazon
This all-in-one wine accessory combines a chiller, filter and pourer, ensuring you can enjoy a perfectly chilled glass of wine at the ideal temperature. The stainless-steel chiller rod rapidly cools your wine without diluting its flavor like ice will. It also features drip-free pouring spout to minimize spills, and comes with a rubber stopper to preserve the freshness of your wine.
To use, just place the chiller stick in the freezer for a minimum of two hours, open your wine to let it aerate and then pour. The stick keeps your wine chilled for up to an hour.
“Great product,” an Amazon customer says. “I gifted this to my sister in law for Christmas and we have used it numerous times already. Awesome for parties.”
For a limited time, you can get this 3-in-1 wine tool for 25% off on Amazon.
Huski wine chiller
Huski via Amazon
The Huski wine cooler eliminates the hassle of keeping wine chilled. Say goodbye to ice and countless trips to the fridge. Huski keeps your wine perfectly chilled wherever you are, making it the ultimate portable wine accessory. It’s shelf-ready, so all you need to do is take a cold bottle, place it in your Huski, tighten the lid and you’re ready to enjoy.
Crafted with double-walled, vacuum-insulated stainless steel, this wine chiller offers style, quality and exceptional performance. Internal copper plating enhances thermal efficiency, and the stay-dry design ensures no condensation will form on the outside, keeping your hands and tables dry.
The Huski wine chiller can keep wine chilled for up to six hours. Choose from seven colors.
Estelle stemware wine glasses
Ashley Stark Home
Give the gift of gorgeous stemware to your significant other this Valentine’s Day. This set of two wine glasses is available in a wide array of candy-colored hues, such as lavender, mint green, fuchsia and blush pink. These will look beautiful displayed in your Valentine’s kitchen and make quite the statement on their dining table during a dinner party.
Each piece can hold up to 16.5 ounces of wine. These gorgeous glasses were hand-blown with colored glass made by artisans in Poland.
You can also find them in a set of six, or as a set of stemless glasses.
Firstleaf Wine Club subscription
Firstleaf Wine Club
If your loved one enjoys wine but wants to expand their knowledge and palate, consider gifting them a subscription to the Firstleaf Wine Club. The recipient can begin by taking a fun quiz that gauges their preferences for different flavors as well as their knowledge of various wine varietals. Based on their responses, they will receive a personalized selection of six unique wines. These wines come with tasting and pairing cards to enhance their wine experience.
Not a fan of a certain bottle? Firstleaf will credit you for the price of the bottle if you don’t like a wine the brand selects for you.
Unrooted Wine Club
Unrooted Wine Club
Help your loved one discover sommelier curated small-batch natural wines with Unrooted Wine Club.
Each month the brand’s founder curates four of his favorite bottles from regions and varietals across the world. The themed shipments promise to take you along the journey with wine education and food pairings that will blow your mind.
Your partner will have the opportunity get to explore natural reds, whites, oranges and more, a selection far beyond than anything they’d find at the grocery store.
Coravin pivot wine preservation system
Coravin via Amazon
Enjoy your favorite red or white wine over several weeks with the Coravin Pivot wine preservation system. After opening your bottle, simply insert the Coravin stopper and wine tube. The 100% food-grade argon gas capsules take the place of poured wine to maintain the freshness of your wine for an extended period.
This kit includes the Pivot system, one argon gas capsule, two bottle stoppers and a bottle sleeve, providing everything you need for preserving your wine.
“I’m very particular about saving wine,” an Amazon customer says. “If it’s not finished the day it was opened, I don’t like the taste at all. This was shocking to me, the wine was smooth and fresh. I love it!”
Plus, the Coravin pivot wine preservation system is currently 8% off on Amazon.
Mark & Graham canvas four-bottle wine tote
Mark & Graham
If your significant other loves going on picnics, participating in potlucks or going to the farmers market every week, get them this convenient wine tote from Mark & Graham. This tote includes four dedicated compartments for wine, as well as an extra compartment in the middle of the bag for other items, such as meat, cheese and fruit. The bag comes with a flat bottom to ensure your wine stays in place when putting the bag down.
What we also love about this wine bag is that the wine compartments, which are held in place by velcro, can be removed, making this bag incredibly versatile. Like many other Mark & Graham products, this bag can be monogrammed. You can add up to two embroidered initials in one of 12 colors options.
Birch Lane Catalin wood wall-mounted wine glass rack
Wayfair
A great storage solution can go a long way, making this wine rack a solid gift for any wine lover. This wine rack will help free up space elsewhere in their kitchen as well as provide a nice place to display their small wine collection and glasses.
These floating shelves come in four sizes, with the smallest option able to fit about eight to ten bottles of wine, though each are equipped to hold about 15 pieces of stemware. They’re made of reclaimed wood, are made to order and come in three colors, including gray as well as dark walnut and walnut wood stains.
YouYah wine decanter set
Amazon
If your partner loves wine and doesn’t have a decanter yet, they may be doing wine all wrong. Wine decanters have multiple functions, including being a pretty pitcher, but they mostly serve as a vessel that allows the wine to aerate. Aeration helps enhance the wine’s flavor and aromas with time.
This elegant wine decanter set allows for exactly that, and also comes with very helpful tools that make storing and maintaining your decanter so much easier. These include a decanter drying stand, cleaning beads, a brush and a cork stopper.
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Floods, landslides struck parts of Bosnia as residents slept, leaving at least 16 dead and several missing
A severe rainstorm struck Bosnia overnight Friday, killing at least 16 people in floods and landslides in several towns and villages in central and southern parts of the country, with surging waters rushing into people’s homes as they were sleeping.
Rescue services in the south said several people were missing and called on volunteers and the army to assist as roads were closed and houses left without electricity.
Josip Kalem, a resident of Fojnica, one of the towns hit by the floods, said his dog’s barking woke him up at around 4 a.m. When he came out on the terrace, he saw the water rising rapidly.
“I came down, woke up my wife, and we looked around, we could not get out of the house. We saw more and more water coming in,” he said. “All of a sudden, the water was flooding the garage, basement, my car — everything. The water swept it all away, including my dog. Flood took it downstream.”
Andja Milesic, another resident of Fojnica, also said she was caught by surprise in the middle of the night.
“When I woke up, my bedroom floor was already soaked. I walked into the hallway — water was everywhere — the living room, everywhere,” she said. “It was horrible.”
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Darko Juka, a spokesman for the local administration, said at least 14 people had died in and around the southern town of Jablanica. Officials later said two more bodies have been found.
“Those are the ones who have been discovered by rescuers,” he said. “We still don’t know the final death toll.”
“I don’t remember such a crisis since the war,” Juka said referring to the 1992-95 war in Bosnia that left the country in ruins. “The scale of this chaotic situation is harrowing.”
Defense Minister Zukan Helez told N1 regional television that troops have been engaged to help and that the casualties were reported.
Helez said that “hour after hour we are receiving news about new victims. … Our first priority is to save the people who are alive and buried in houses where the landslides are.”
A pregnant woman lost her baby after she was rescued from the floods and transferred to a hospital in the regional center of Mostar. Authorities said doctors were fighting for her life as well. Separately, a child was successfully rescued and hospitalized, local officials said.
Rescue services in the towns of Jablanica and Kiseljak said the power was off overnight and mobile phones lost their signal.
The Jablanica fire station said that the town was completely inaccessible because roads and trainlines were closed.
“The police informed us that the railroad is also blocked,” the state rescue service said in a statement. “You can’t get in or out of Jablanica at the moment. Landline phones are working, but mobile phones have no signal.”
It urged people not to venture out on the flooded streets.
Human-caused climate change increases the intensity of rainfall because warm air holds more moisture. This summer, the Balkans were also hit by long-lasting record temperatures, causing a drought. Scientists said the dried-out land has hampered the absorption of floodwaters.
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Drone footage broadcast on Bosnian media showed villages and towns completely submerged under water, while videos on social networks showed dramatic scenes of muddy torrents and damaged roads.
One of the busiest roads linking Sarajevo with the Adriatic coast via Jablanica was swept into a river, together with a railway line in a huge landslide, according to photos.
“Many people are endangered because of big waters and landslides. There is information about victims and many injured and missing persons,” said the civic protection service.
Authorities urged people to stay on the upper floors of their homes. Reports said surging waters swept away domestic animals and cars as the water swiftly filled up lower floors of buildings.
The heavy rains and strong winds were also reported in neighboring Croatia, where several roads were closed and the capital of Zagreb prepared for the swollen Sava River to burst its banks.
Heavy winds have hampered traffic along the southern coast of the Adriatic Sea, and flash floods caused by heavy rain threatened several towns and villages in Croatia.
Floods caused by torrential rains were also reported in Montenegro, south of Bosnia, where some villages were cut off and roads and homes flooded.
In 2014, floodwaters triggered more than 3,000 landslides across the Balkans, laying waste to entire towns and villages and disturbing land mines leftover from the region’s 1990s war, along with warning signs that marked the unexploded weapons.
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